Woman's throat slashed in Bronx push-in robbery

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- Police in the Bronx are hunting for two robbers who slashed a 75-year old woman in the throat during a brutal push-in robbery.

Investigators say the suspects followed her from the elevator to her 16th floor apartment in the St. Mary's Park Houses on Westchester Avenue Friday night.

They pushed their way in and hit her several times before slashing her throat.

The victim is expected to survive.

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Woman slashed during knifepoint robbery in NYC

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- Police are searching for the person who attacked a woman with a knife while trying to rob her in Manhattan.

The incident happened in an alley off West 183rd Street in Washington Heights Wednesday night.

The suspect slashed the woman in the chest and ran off.

She is recovering at St. Luke's Hospital. (Copyright ©2011 WABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
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